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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: linux arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] kbuild: document KBUILD_LDS, KBUILD_VMLINUX_{INIT,MAIN} and LDFLAGS_vmlinux
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:00:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120428210005.GD7442@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120428205651.GA7426@merkur.ravnborg.org>

From 27d836b236726aa5f472f3817df77e7076a2540d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:06:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] kbuild: document KBUILD_LDS, KBUILD_VMLINUX_{INIT,MAIN}
 and LDFLAGS_vmlinux

Newly exported variables - used by link-vmlinux.sh

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
 Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index 68e32bb..1053642 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ LDFLAGS_MODULE
 --------------------------------------------------
 Additional options used for $(LD) when linking modules.
 
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux
+--------------------------------------------------
+Additional options passed to final link of vmlinux.
+
 KBUILD_VERBOSE
 --------------------------------------------------
 Set the kbuild verbosity. Can be assigned same values as "V=...".
@@ -214,3 +218,18 @@ KBUILD_BUILD_USER, KBUILD_BUILD_HOST
 These two variables allow to override the user@host string displayed during
 boot and in /proc/version. The default value is the output of the commands
 whoami and host, respectively.
+
+KBUILD_LDS
+--------------------------------------------------
+The linker script with full path. Assigned by the top-level Makefile.
+
+KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT
+--------------------------------------------------
+All objects files for the init (first) part of vmlinux.
+Files specified with KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT are linked first.
+
+KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN
+--------------------------------------------------
+All objects files for the main part of vmlinux.
+KBUILD_VMLINUX_INIT and KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN together specify
+all the object files used to link vmlinux.
-- 
1.7.10

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-28 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-28 20:56 [PATCH v2 0/4] kbuild: Move vmlinux link out of top-level Makefile Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-28 20:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 1/4] kbuild: drop unused KBUILD_VMLINUX_OBJS from " Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-28 20:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] kbuild: refactor final link of sparc32 Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-28 20:58   ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-29  8:27   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-04-28 20:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] kbuild: link of vmlinux moved to a script Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-29  8:28   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-04-29  8:28     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-05-04 23:05   ` Michal Marek
2012-05-04 23:05     ` Michal Marek
2012-05-05  8:29     ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-05  8:29       ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-07 23:15       ` Tony Luck
2012-05-07 23:15         ` Tony Luck
2012-05-08 16:51         ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-08 16:51           ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-08 17:39           ` Tony Luck
2012-05-08 17:39             ` Tony Luck
2012-05-08 17:53             ` [PATCH] kbuild: fix ia64 link Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-08 17:53               ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-10 12:22               ` Michal Marek
2012-05-10 12:22                 ` Michal Marek
2012-05-09 22:58           ` [PATCH 3/4] kbuild: link of vmlinux moved to a script Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-10  5:16             ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-10  5:16               ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-05-10 12:22             ` Michal Marek
2012-05-10 12:22               ` Michal Marek
2012-05-10 14:44               ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-10 14:44                 ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-05-15 22:20                 ` Michal Marek
2012-05-15 22:20                   ` Michal Marek
2012-09-06 20:43   ` James Hogan
2012-09-06 20:43     ` James Hogan
2012-04-28 21:00 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2012-04-29  8:29   ` [PATCH 4/4] kbuild: document KBUILD_LDS, KBUILD_VMLINUX_{INIT,MAIN} and LDFLAGS_vmlinux Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-04-29  8:29     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-04-29  8:26 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] kbuild: Move vmlinux link out of top-level Makefile Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-04-29  8:26   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-04-29 11:03   ` Sam Ravnborg
2012-04-29 11:03     ` Sam Ravnborg

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